Modern Library 100 Best Novels when any word in the title is accepted as the answer Quiz

#	Novel	Author
1		Joyce
2		Fitzgerald
3		Joyce
4		Nabokov
5		Huxley
6		Faulkner
7		Heller
8		Koestler
9		Lawrence
10		Steinbeck
11		Lowry
12		Butler
13		Orwell
14		Graves
15		Woolf
16		Dreiser
17		McCullers
18		Vonnegut
19		Ellison
20		Wright
21		Bellow
22		O'Hara
23		Dos Passos
24		Anderson
25		Forster
26		James
27		James
28		Fitzgerald
29		Farrell
30		Ford
31		Orwell
32		James
33		Dreiser
34		Waugh

#	Novel	Author
35		Faulkner
36		Warren
37		Wilder
38		Forster
39		Baldwin
40		Greene
41		Golding
42		Dickey
43		Powell
44		Huxley
45		Hemingway
46		Conrad
47		Conrad
48		Lawrence
49		Lawrence
50		Miller
51		Mailer
52		Roth
53		Nabokov
54		Faulkner
55		Kerouac
56		Hammett
57		Ford
58		Wharton
59		Beerbohm
60		Percy
61		Cather
62		Jones
63		Cheever
64		Salinger
65		Burgess
66		Maugham
67		Conrad
68		Lewis

#	Novel	Author
69		Wharton
70		Durrell
71		Hughes
72		Naipaul
73		West
74		Hemingway
75		Waugh
76		Spark
77		Joyce
78		Kipling
79		Forster
80		Waugh
81		Bellow
82		Stegner
83		Naipaul
84		Bowen
85		Conrad
86		Doctorow
87		Bennett
88		London
89		Green
90		Rushdie
91		Caldwell
92		Kennedy
93		Fowles
94		Rhys
95		Murdoch
96		Styron
97		Bowles
98		Cain
99		Donleavy
100		Tarkington

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100 Best Novels by ANY Word Quiz

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	save_ferris15:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 15:20 GMT		29 points
	No 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

	rockgolf:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 15:21 GMT		73 points
	I entered 4 words and got 62/100. I had no idea I was so well read.

	midnightdj:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 15:38 GMT		25 points
	Suggestion: Specify that this is only 20th century novels, which is what in fact it is.

	WyattsTorch:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 15:52 GMT		21 points
	Shocked that "Zuleika" wasn't in any other titles.

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	Fongolia:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 18:09 GMT		7 points
	I thought I got cheated out of "Sons and Lovers", but apparently "A" then "AN" negated my attempts to type "AND", though I didn't realize it the second time it happened.

	gellchom:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 18:37 GMT		9 points
	This does seem like an odd list, but you got it where you got it. Do specify 20th century, though. I was astonished not to see any Twain or Dickens, just to name two.

	RobPro:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 18:44 GMT		13 points
	I love the

	Bob91351:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 19:06 GMT		1 point
	I thought I was special when I got 75 of these, then looked at the misses and found that the 25 I missed were the 25 MOST missed - not so special after all...

	Derek4:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 20:13 GMT		16 points
	0/100....types "the"....47/100....feels like a classic literature enthusiast

	indianwolf1992:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 20:43 GMT		9 points
	Thank God for articles!

	Mikline:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 21:07 GMT		4 points
	I'm surprised Toni Morrison isn't on here.

	Stran:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 21:40 GMT		2 points
	Luckily I know the word 'the'!

	Jinxxeh:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 22:10 GMT		2 points
	What kind of person doesn't guess 'the' in a quiz like this? xD

	TrumpetPlayer:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 22:45 GMT		7 points
	Hm... this is obviously a subjective list, but I can't help but think that it's a very poor one.

	ezois:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 22:57 GMT		0 points
	After trying "and" three times, I types in "the" and then "I" etc.

	dumbgai:	Aug 27th, 2012 at 23:33 GMT		1 point
	Thank you, "the"!

	cgrapes429:	Aug 28th, 2012 at 00:03 GMT		5 points
	It was a fun quiz, but their list is truly rubbish.

	enomo67:	Aug 28th, 2012 at 00:36 GMT		5 points
	I like to envision a bunch of older white men wearing smoking jackets with pipes hanging out of their mouths and sitting in red-brown leather armchairs when I imagine who came up with this heavily male dominated list. Because, really--two James Joyce novels in the top THREE?

	smartster:	Aug 28th, 2012 at 02:48 GMT		3 points
	If I wanted to read Top 100 books, I wouldn't use this list. Waugh seems to have been elevated to Shakespeare status.

	jeffg3wksapart:	Aug 28th, 2012 at 16:57 GMT		1 point
	My first reaction when I saw the time allotted was 100 titles in 300 seconds. 3 seconds per title? Impossible! Started typing random titles-- Ulysses, August, Men etc. Don't know what my first 'the' was but when so many showed up I had my first 'A-ha' moment. Added the other preps and articles, got several more. Really wonder what my and other players scores wdve been if a KEY word had been necessary. And then prob. wdve used the frequent 'not enuf time' comment, ha.

	EmTeeZ:	Aug 28th, 2012 at 16:59 GMT		3 points
	No To Kill A Mockingbird? No thanks. The Reader's List was clearly flooded by a certain crowd as it features four Ayn Rand novels and three L. Ron Hubbard novels in the top ten, but at least it has To Kill A MockingBird.

	ClamBuckets:	Sep 1st, 2012 at 17:56 GMT		1 point
	@EmTeeZ: Oh man, I came to write a comment on that too. When I saw that list Reader's list I did a bizarre combination laugh/shudder/facepalm. I wouldn't put too much stock into anything from that crowd.

	gregoire:	Sep 7th, 2012 at 20:07 GMT		1 point
	It's obvious by the distribution that some people never figured out that they could get half of the answers just by typing the... I wonder how well those people did.

	Ember_Nickel:	Sep 18th, 2012 at 17:14 GMT		1 point
	I was unclear on the concept until I tried "Animal" [Farm] and got "an."

	IronDragline:	Nov 9th, 2012 at 11:46 GMT		3 points
	Fun quiz, but probably the most garbage list ever assembled. All you need to do confirm this fact is that "Finnegan's Wake" is 77th...a book with no plot, no characters, no meaning to the actual sentences, and half of its words made-up. It takes a special kind of pretentious idiot to put it on the list of greatest books of the 20th century.

	Murf1013:	Feb 28th, 2013 at 18:26 GMT		0 points
	Have to agree with IronDragline.

	PropagandaPanda:	May 10th, 2013 at 22:28 GMT		1 point
	Seems like all the best 100 modern novels are written by English speaking authors and Vladimir Nabokov...